The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24

Bible

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

John Paul VI

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Sigmund Freud

Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Jared Diamond

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Oliver Cromwell

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Jeanne DuPrau

Be larger than your task.

Orison Swett Marden

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Stephen King